Having studied in a comparable environment (graduate school, humanities) I have to say I find this kinda cool and not that surprising.
For one thing, there's TONS of BS in the Humanities, especially in graduate courses, and yes this just reminds people (who may not have lots of firsthand experience with this) that it can be frequently ricidulous.
That said, I feel like this particular thing is actually pretty cool and maybe even useful? If I'm a film student (and I think there's already some questions about the usefulness of post-graduate study of film at NYU, but let's ignore that for the moment) ... If I'm a film student and I'm trying to learn how to make good film, I would probably be pretty jazzed at working with someone who has as much experience as he does. And I'm evaluating this, of course, without any knowledge of how good a teacher James Franco could be (just having valuable experience clearly doesn't mean that he can communicate that well to others). However, just with the bare facts here, it seems like this might be a perfectly good thing for NYU film school to do? Maybe even more useful than things they do normally?
Resolved, I hereby officially nominate "The Women"
I saw this a long time ago on a plane but quit about 20 minutes in because it was so horrible that sitting on a plane without any other form of entertainment (managed to make it on without iPod, book, magazine, etc.) seemed preferable.
As a Christian who believes in afterlife (but has the humility and intelligence not to claim to know exactly what all that is), I have to say I find a guy using his son's traumatic experience in that way to be much more offensive than a story about Gretchen Carlson's demise. I mean, I'm not pro-suicide. But I'm also not pro-Gretchen Carlson, you know?
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A night watchman at the Central Park Zoo investigates unexplained shenanigans. Is it a lion? Is it a tiger? No, it's a dragon. Family-friendly hilarity ensues.
Shakespeare in Love: Detective Mona Shakespeare might be in over her head when she investigates a brutal murder in the sleepy mountain town of Love, Seskatchawan.
Can I say that Paul Brittain is hot? He's hot. I would definitely like to take "Sex" Ed Vincent's advice and touch his member perpendicularly with my own.
Also, I'm very over Kristen Wiig's excited character.
My parents baby proofed the cabinets when I was a baby. That was also in the 80s? 80s thing? But it was also in Los Angeles, where baby locks double as keep-stuff-in-cabinets-during-earthquakes locks, so that might be it.
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